Board members

UKTI has brought together business people with international trade and
investment experience coupled with Advanced Engineering experience to:

Advise Government on marketing the UK for international trade and inward investment;
Advise on issues affecting UK business's perceptions of and capacity for international trade;
Provide ideas on how UK-based Advanced Engineering companies can improve their international business performance;
Give strategic advice on the relative priority of market and sub-sector opportunities and activities to achieve UK Trade & Investment's corporate targets;
Consider the effectiveness of UKTI activities in achieving those targets and evolve priorities accordingly;
Help bring coherence to the sector's international marketing efforts.

The Board is chaired by Allan Cook, CBE.

Allan Cook, CBE

Atkins, Chairman

Allan Cook CBE was appointed a non-executive director at Atkins in September 2009, taking up the post of chairman on 1 February 2010. He is a chartered engineer with more than 30 years’ international experience in the automotive, aerospace and defence industries.